Photo-a-day 2016.10.31

Chocolate chocolate cupcakes

Chocolate chocolate cupcakes

Cakes taken from Trophy Cupcakes' book, buttercream frosting was leftovers from yesterday's chocolate filling

I now know why I like Trophy Cupcake's moist cakes so much - they literally put boiling water into the batter! The batter was super thin going into the oven and came out just the perfect amount of moist and richness. Yum!

Photo-a-day 2016.10.30

Orange macarons with chocolate buttercream

Orange macarons with chocolate buttercream

Acquired from a 2014 Tea Time magazine, but I can't find the recipe online (the referenced page is at the end of this post)

Pictured is batch 1 of 2 batches of macaron cookies. Sadly the cookies gave me lots of problems, flavor was definitely there but the bottoms were very hard to peel off the pan. Half of the 1st batch and 1/3 of the 2nd batch of cookies were unusable and had to be composted (or lumped into a ball and into my mouth). It was quite sad.

On the bright side, these cookies were so good I almost wanted to keep these all for myself......

Photo-a-day 2016.10.29

Autumn canopy

Photo-a-day 2016.10.28

Morning commute

Photo-a-day 2016.10.27

Looking south Seattle

Photo-a-day 2016.10.26

7 Wonders

Photo-a-day 2016.10.25

Pretty plant hair

Seen in the office kitchen. Not sure if it's permanent or part of the Halloween decoration...

Photo-a-day 2016.10.24

Funko Groot

Photo-a-day 2016.10.23

Pollinating bee

Photo-a-day 2016.10.22

Natural orange awning

Taken at Kubota Garden in Seattle, WA

(little argh for not pulling that branch out of the lower left of frame)